اقتباس:
Dear Sir
We are here facing a wrong PIN entry case and we all know how the system responds to such case but lets assume for the moment that such system exist… it is full of bugs and illogical features:
1- What should a cardholder with PIN number 4444 or 5665 do? He won't be able to mirror his PIN, would he?
2- The message states that this is an "ATM" feature whereas the ATM machine doesn't and can't do any PIN verification processes let alone detecting if the wrong PIN is a mirrored PIN or not.
3- The PIN is being decrypted at the issuer's host and as far as I know there is no such thing in our ITM system as we don't do "Mirrored PIN Verification".
4- We have no connection to any police alert system whatsoever so even if the detection part of the system does exist; the reactive part doesn't.
5- What will the police do if they received such alert? Do they keep a police officer 5 meters away from each and every ATM machine for intervention in such cases?
6- This will also mean that new ATM installations should be reported to the police in order to allocate the appropriate resources for such protection system.
7- What if the officer was late in his response? The thief will know something is wrong as the machine didn't dispense any money and there is no one to protect the cardholder… I'd rather be robbed than being stabbed in the heart for trying to outsmart a thief.
8- Last but not least if this is true then why is it circulating over random email messages rather than communicated by issuers to their cardholders in a presentable manner?? I'd assume if a bank invests in such security system would announce that to its customers and make them gain more confidence in their issuer bank.
Maybe issuer banks didn't want this to spread around and alert the thieves so they kept it covered to the extent that even the card holders doesn't know about it… this sound like a joke message rather than a real life system… such features are just unattainable under current technology and resources and those claims are just beyond common sense.
P.S: the guy that created this message got very wide and resourful imagination… unfortunately he badly needs to get a life.
MMamdouh